Hair-cleaning comb.



G. E. SHAW. HAIR CLEANING COMB.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 5. m4.

Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

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HAIR-CLEANING COMB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 5, 1914. Serial No. 816,755.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. SHAW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Cleaning Combs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the general class of toilet articles designated as combs. One of its objectsis to provide an implement for more perfectly cleaning the hair.

Another object is to provide an imple ment to remove the excess of natural oil from the hair without injuring the hair or altering the nature of or removing the normal or requisite amount of natural oil.

Another object is to provide an improved implement capable of securing improved general and individual sanitary conditions.

My invention also comprises certain details of form, combination and arrangement, all of which will be fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, in which;

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved implement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional detail on line o o of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a portion of my improved implement.

The human hair is exteriorly rough or barbed, and being charged with natural oil, rapidly accumulates upon its exterior a quantity of dust, germs, lint, and similar substances, which adhere thereto, and which the highly polished and non-absorbent 'combs heretofore in use fail to detach or remove. The natural oil of the hair is usually secreted in excess, and the practice has been to remove it from time to time by saponification, which changes its chemical nature and results in its being removed entirely, or to an excesslve degree, or if left to any extent, being in an undesirable and in ur1ous form or state. Also 1t has been quite common practice heretofore for two or more persons to make use of a single comb, thereby facilitating the transfer of germs and contagious diseases from one person to another. All of these objectionable features are obviated by the use of my improved implement.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the preferred embodiment of my invention, which comprises a comb which may be constructed of wood or other material to provide teeth having a fine pile or soft velvety surface as distinguished from a polished surface, and caused by the projection of a multiplicity of fine fibers. The material from which the comb is to be-formed may be a fibrous material of artificial production, or such as found in certain natural Wood growth, of which hard maple is an example. This fibrous material after being put into comb form, may by mechanical or chemical treatment or a combination of both be partially disintegrated at or near the surface of the teeth causing the free ends of a multiplicity of fibers to extend outwardly from the surfaces of each comb tooth to form a delicate brush like surface. This fibrous surface upon the teeth of the comb serves to enmesh the foreign particles adhering to the hair, and to detach and remove them, thereby cleaning the hair and rendering it glossy and fluffy. The teeth are also of an absorbent nature or texture, which results in any excess of natural oil being absorbed by the comb and removed from the hair without removing the normal quantity of natural oil requisite to maintain the hair in proper condition, and without changing the phemical nature of the oil remaining in the iair.

When an artificially constructed fibrous material is employed the comb may be shaped integrally, that is, with the back and teeth in one piece. When produced from a natural wood growth, the comb is preferably constructed of two sections of wood tongue and grooved together. The grain of the wood in section B is preferably parallel to the teeth D. The section H is also preferably of wood with the grain lengthwise of the comb or at right angles to the teeth D. Section H may if desired be of material other than wood. The section B is preferably shaped into a tongue E at its edge opposite to the teeth D, which tongue is fitted into a counterpart groove F in the section H, and firmly united thereto. The respective sections 13 and H may either or both be composed of a single piece of wood or of two or more pieces built up or united together.

Combs such as herein disclosed can be constructed at such small original cost as to enable them to be discarded or destroyed after a single use, and are designed to be Patented Nov. a, rare.

furnished in hotels, sleeping cars and other public places tightly sealed in original packa es thereb 'uaranteein to the user their sanitary condition. The continued use- .'sired texture, and keeps it in healthy condition With relatively less frequent shampooing thereof.

The faces 2 and 3 on the comb provide desirable spaces for advertising matter, and also directions for its use, and the proper care of the hair. The use of advertising matter on the comb serves to reduce the first "0st of the comb to the consumer and thereby to enable the user to quickly discard the comb and replace it with a fresh clean one.

The implement herein illustrated and described is capable of considerable modification Without departing from the principle of my invention.

Having. described my invention, What I claim is: r a

1. A comb in which the teeth are formed of unpolished fibrous Wood having the fibers extending longitudinally of the teeth and their. ends projecting laterally from the teeth to form a brush like surface.

2. A comb having teeth of Woody fibrous material in Which the free ends of a multi-' plicity of fibers protrude from the body of the teeth to form a brush like surface.

3. A comb in Which the teeth are formed of unpolishe'd Wood having a multiplicity of integral surface fibers projecting therefrom to form a brush like surface.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, 7

Washington, D. C. 

